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DEMOCRATIC PARTY

A party as the official results list it (DP). Listed in 2 general elections, from 1994 to 1999.

General elections: 2
First listed: 1994
Latest: 1999
Abbreviation: DP

Also listed by abbreviation

The official 1994 results list parties on the national ballot by abbreviation only. A line with the same abbreviation is a separate record: DP (listed by abbreviation only). Its votes are not added to this party’s results.

Logo and colours

Party logos: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)

Colours: no verified record. The IEC’s results dashboards draw parties in display colours of their own choosing; they are not the party’s statement and are not used.

Leadership

No verified record currently available. Party office is recorded only where the party or an official register states it, with the date it states.

Electoral history

Votes and share in every election this record appears in

Results in every election recordedShare of valid votes on all ballots of that type in the election, including where the party was not listed. Changes compare elections of the same type on the same ballot.
Election	Ballot	Votes	Share	Change	On the ballot
1999 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	1 416 352	8,9%	+6,1 ppsince 1994	9 of 9 provinces
1999 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	1 527 337	9,6%	–	national ballot
1994 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	538 655	2,8%	–	9 of 9 provinces

Promises and actions

What the party promised and what it did, each with evidence and a review date — a separate, editorial layer beside the official record

Open the tracker

None published yet. Promises and party activities appear here only after editorial review — this is not a statement that the party made no promises or did nothing.

Limpopo, 1999: by municipal area

Areas as that election's official results list them — never mapped onto today's boundaries

All provinces

1999 National and Provincial Elections · the party’s latest election with verified results

Limpopo — 1999, provincial ballotVotes and share of valid votes per municipal area
Municipal area	Votes	Share	Valid votes
ALLDAYS/ LT-BUYSDORP RLC	202	1,4%	14 533
BAKENBERG RLC	110	0,2%	47 018
BOCHUM/ MY DARLING RLC	90	0,3%	31 141
BOLEBEDU CS/ BOLEBEDU HLANGANANI RLC	66	0,1%	57 206
BUSHBUCKRIDGE MIDLANDS RLC	235	0,5%	49 098
BUSHBUCKRIDGE NORTH RLC	162	0,3%	52 041
BUSHBUCKRIDGE SOUTH RLC	79	0,2%	43 879
DENDRON RLC	107	1,0%	10 401
DIKGALE/ SOEKMEKAAR RLC	133	0,4%	34 301
DILOKONG RLC	39	0,1%	30 067
DUIWELSKLOOF TLC	258	2,7%	9 416
ELIM/ TSHITALE/ HLANGANANI RLC	538	0,6%	94 126
ELLISRAS RURAL RLC	105	0,6%	18 972
ELLISRAS TLC	704	9,0%	7 798
GIYANI RLC	314	0,5%	69 597
GREATER NEBO-NORTH RLC	81	0,3%	26 159
GREATER NORTHAM RLC	614	4,3%	14 263
HAENERTSBURG RLC	324	1,0%	33 262
HLOGOTLOU/ LEPELE RLC	85	0,2%	55 429
HOEDSPRUIT/ MAKUTSWI RLC	839	3,1%	27 433
KOEDOESRAND-REBONE RLC	177	1,0%	18 577
LEBOWAKGOMO RLC	237	0,8%	31 547
LETSITELE/ GRAVELOTTE RLC	597	1,2%	51 295
LEVHUVHU-SHINWEDZI RLC	215	0,4%	59 623
LOUIS TRICHARDT TLC	1 385	4,9%	28 403
MANKWENG RLC	414	0,8%	54 723
MARABA-MASHASHANE/ MAJA RLC	166	0,7%	23 136
MESSINA TLC	486	5,9%	8 175
MOLETJE/ MATLALA RLC	254	0,3%	74 852
MOOKETSI/ SEKGOSESE RLC	118	0,4%	30 503
MUTALE/ MASISI/ VHUTSWEMA RLC	339	0,9%	37 836
NABOOMSPRUIT TLC	327	5,2%	6 324
NABOOMSPRUIT/ ROEDTAN/THUSANG RLC	206	4,8%	4 286
NGWARITSI/ MAKHUDU-THAMAGE RLC	180	0,3%	60 476
NOKO-TLOU/FETAKGOMO RLC	310	0,8%	38 370
NYLSTROOM TLC	750	7,4%	10 176
NZHELELE/ TSHIPISE RLC	507	1,0%	51 053
OHRIGSTAD/EASTERN THUBATSI RLC	45	0,1%	36 664
PHALABORWA TLC	1 689	4,4%	38 774
PIETERSBURG TLC	4 114	9,6%	42 896
POTGIETERSRUS TLC	1 423	4,2%	34 146
THABAZIMBI TLC	430	6,5%	6 634
THOHAYANDOU TLC	491	0,6%	82 776
THUBATSE STEELPOORT RLC	24	0,2%	12 635
TZANEEN TLC	1 679	5,8%	28 857
VAALWATER RLC	350	4,8%	7 242
WARMBAD TLC	677	5,1%	13 362
WARMBAD-PIENAARSRIVIER RLC	712	9,5%	7 466
ZEBEDIELA RLC	99	0,3%	31 747

All parties in the 1999 National and Provincial Elections

Names as listed

Exactly as the official results and reports print them

Names and abbreviations as listedA different name in a later election would be a separate record unless a source links them
Name	As	Elections
Democratic Party	Name on the results	1994
DEMOCRATIC PARTY	Name on the results	1999
DP	Abbreviation in the results reports	1999

Manifestos

The party's own election manifestos, searchable by page

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No manifesto of DEMOCRATIC PARTY is on the record yet. Manifestos are added only from the party’s own published copy.

Declared donations

As the Electoral Commission's published declarations reports print them; above the disclosure threshold only

No declaration naming this party appears in the Commission’s published reports on the record (2021/22 onwards). Donations below the disclosure threshold are not published by law, so this is not a statement that the party received nothing.

Sources

Every figure on this page is read from the approved official results of each election; nothing is entered by hand. Each election’s page lists the Electoral Commission’s files it was loaded from, with their fingerprints and how the totals were checked: 1994, 1999.

Record first created from IEC 1999 National and Provincial Elections — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV) · retrieved 8 October 2026 · approved 19 October 2026

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